Abstract
The purpose of this study was to investigate the relationship between psychosomatic factors and the eating behavior of female junior college students. Subjects were 250 freshmen at Shukugawa Gakuin junior College selected by simple random sampling from a pool of approximately 1,000 students enrolled in the spring of 1996. Cornell Medical Index (CMI) and eating behavior qestionnaires were administered to determine the student's psychosomatic states, eating behavior and personal interest in health care. The real reply rate to the questionnaires was 158 which yielded an excellent effective rate of 63.2%. The results of the study revealed that those students diagnosed as neurotic generally demonstrated poorer eating behavior and less personal attention to their health than those judged to be normal. In addition, the above findings were confirmed by simple frequency distribution and multiple regression analysis and have been shown to support our previous research.
